I invite you to take a journey through time with me and imagine you’re on the front lines of a medieval battle along side King Arthur. You look around and notice something is missing. King Arthur’s legendary sword, Excalibur is nowhere to be found. Fast forward a few centuries and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) is in the same boat. Their most powerful weapon in the war against drugs has been taken away leaving them defenseless to watch as years of work is being reversed and discarded. Congress passed a law mid last year which effectively undermined the DEA’s ability to investigate suspicious prescription narcotics being distributed around the country by major pharmaceutical companies. In laymen’s terms, say for example a town with a population of 2,000 people gets a shipment of 500,000 prescription opiate pain killers per year. This new law prevents the DEA from investigating this blatant disregard of the pharmaceutical companies ability to control the flow of opioids flooding the streets. I am not a politician, nor do I ever plan to be when I graduate Habilitat’s long term treatment program, but I do however find it a little too convenient that 106 million dollars was spent by the pharmaceutical companies in conjunction with this bill, and all of the sudden Congress comes to a general conclusion that the DEA needs to have less authority over the control of the distribution of narcotic pain killers. I wonder if everyone went out for steak and lobster in their new Mercedes after this bill was passed. I leave you with this thought. In a stereotypical world where women clutch their purses when passing a homeless man, maybe we need to turn our attention to the legal drug dealers in the Armani suits pumping our friends and families with dangerously addictive pills thus creating more and more drug addicts every day.